August 19, 2012

Jay Erker: Cut Both Ways

ShoeboxLA is very pleased to begin its second season with Los Angeles artist Jay
Erker.For Cut Both Ways Erker
presents, in book form, layered fashion advertisements whose subject matter has
been clearly removed. Bodies of abstraction are created by the accumulation of
layered pages and the subsequent interstitial spaces are shaped from the cut
away figures. Eliminating the subject diverts attention from that which is
meant to compel, focusing the viewer’s attention to the figure’s absence, the
background of the originating image, and the newly constructed abstracted
imagery. Erker received her MFA in film at California Institute of the Arts in
2001 and her BFA in photography in 1997 from the University of Florida.
She co-founded Weekend, an artist-run space in Los Feliz, with husband John
Mills.

This season ShoeboxLA is working in conjunction with The Los Feliz
Business Improvement District (www.losfeliz.biz).
Look for us exclusively around Los Feliz for this exciting second year.

(Los Feliz Triangle Park
is Metro Redline accessible at the Sunset & Vermont stop, walk one block
north to the triangle – Bus: 180/181 to Prospect/Vermont.Plenty of street and metered parking – the
Triangle is just west of the car wash/Machos Tacos and just south of the bank
parking lot)

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Now in our third season! Started in September, 2011 by artists Sophia Allison and Paul W. Evans, ShoeboxLA gives Los Angeles artists an opportunity to do one-day, site-specific exhibitions outside the traditional gallery setting. Locations change for each show but the space remains the same. Blink and you'll miss us...